Clothes-wringer.



A. E. SCHUFFENHAUER.

CLOTHES WRINGER. APPLICATION FILED'OCT. 21. mm.

1.1 62,404. Patented Nov. 30, 1915.

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CLOTHES-WRINGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 30, 1915.

Application filed October 21, 1914. Serial No. 867,749.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR E. SCHUFFEN- HAU'ER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of the city of South Chicago, county of Cook, andState of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in-Clothes-\Vringers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to clothes wringers and has for its object theprovision of improved means for preventing the clothes from wrappingabout the rolls thereof.

The invention consists in the combinations and arrangements of partshereinafter described and claimed.

The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanyingdrawing forming a part of this specification, and in which- I Figure 1'is a front view of a wringer embodying my invention, Fig. 2, a sectlontaken on line 22 of Fig. 1, Fig. 3, a vertical'section taken through thewringer, and Fig. 4, a detail view of a supporting frame employed in theconstruction.

The preferred form of construction as I illustrated in the drawingcomprises an ordinary wringer of any usual or desired construction andprovided with the usual rolls 5. A substantially U-shaped bar 6 1sarranged above the upper roll 5 and carries a flexible strip 7 of feltor cotton webbing contacting perpendicularly with the top of the upperroll. Bar 6 is shdably mounted in guides 8 arranged at the ends thereofso as to permit of free vertical movement of said bar. Bythisarrangement the flexible strip 7 is yieldingly held in contact withthe top of the upper roll 'by the force of.

gravity and will effectually prevent the wrapping of clothes about saldupper roll. A substantially U-shaped supportlng frame 9 is arrangedunder the lower roll as indicated and is provided with drain'slots 10 inthe bottom thereof. A substantially.

U -shaped bar 11 is slidably arranged in supporting frame 9 and carriesa flexible 14-. in the bottom of frame 9 and pressing upwardly on bar11, so as to hold strip 12 yieldingly in contact with the bottom of thelower r0115. By this arrangement'the strip 12 will be held in yieldingcontact with the lower roll 5 and effectually prevent wrappin of theclothes around this roll.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred form ofconstruction for carrying my invention into effect, this is capable ofvariation and modification without departing from thespirit of theinvention. I, therefore, do not wish to be limited to the precisedetails of construction set forth, but desire to avail myself of suchvariations and modifications as come within the scope of the appendedclaims.

Having described my invention what I claim as new and desire to-secureby Letters Patent is:

1. The combination with a wringer having, rolls, of a gravity heldflexible element arranged in contact, with and perpendicular to theuppermost portion of the upper roll; and a spring held flexible elementarranged in contact with and perpendicular to the lowermost portion ofthe lower roll, substantially as described.

2. The combination with a wringer having rolls, of guides arranged atthe sides of said wringer above the upper roll thereof;

a U-shaped bar slidable in said guides and carrying a flexible stripcontacting perpennormally holding the corresponding flexible strip incontact with the lower roll, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

ARTHUR E. SCHUFFENHAUER.

Witnesses:

JOSHUA R. H. Form, B. G. RIoHA ms.

